Bolt on portal axles

[Shunkaha Witko]

Hello, does anyone know a bolt on portal axle for a 3500?

 

[stutaeng]

I certainty have not heard of such an animal...Even SAS are kinda rare for these trucks, doubt portal axles are going to be bolt-on.

 

[strikk]

There are companies out there, AxleTech being the bigger name from back in the day that offered bolt on portals for dana 60 and GM corporate 14 bolt axles. It looks like they have been acquired by another company but the website doesnt show the portal products

The old products were badass, it'd be cool to see them in person: https://www.axletech.com/es/products/suspensions-modules/portal-wheel-end

 

[someotherguy]

Body swap an H1 ?

Richard

 

[Shunkaha Witko]

Sas is not possible for me, I thought of bolt on portals to lift the truck easily because here in belgium you can not lift a truck without a lot of paperwork, so bolt ons is easy no paperwork and every year take them of for the controles

 

[Schurkey]

I had no idea such a product existed for light-duty trucks.

I've seen that sort of thing on a VW-based dune-buggy; and on military/heavy-duty stuff. Never on a pickup.

I learn something new every day.

(I went looking for a photo of the VW portal axle, and came up dry. I had assumed that they were fairly common VW parts...they sure looked OEM to me...but I can't find any hint of 'em on the internet.)

 

[DonYukon]

I mean techically you could SAS is and just run two different sets of springs for inspection

 

[Shunkaha Witko]

I mean techically you could SAS is and just run two different sets of springs for inspection

Isnt it a lot of work every year to switch them?

 

[DonYukon]

Isnt it a lot of work every year to switch them?

if you did a leaf spring set up not really. other than replacing the packs maybe an adjustment in the steering linkage just for the inspection. the easiest route would be blocks but i dont advise running blocks on the front axle